02450nam 2200637 a 450 991082546460332120240516052436.00-19-983167-X1-283-09817-297866130981770-19-983038-X(CKB)2560000000073367(EBL)689295(OCoLC)721195519(SSID)ssj0000524866(PQKBManifestationID)12222189(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000524866(PQKBWorkID)10486382(PQKB)11098909(MiAaPQ)EBC689295(Au-PeEL)EBL689295(CaPaEBR)ebr10467534(CaONFJC)MIL309817(OCoLC)657223858(FINmELB)ELB162216(EXLCZ)99256000000007336720100816d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe pleasures of reading in an age of distraction /Alan Jacobs1st ed.New York Oxford University Press20111 online resource (171 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-974749-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction; AN ESSAY ON SOURCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTSIn recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential, and a recent NEA survey reveals an actual uptick in the reading of literary fiction. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own bReadingSelf-cultureStudy skillsReading.Self-culture.Study skills.028/.8Jacobs Alan1958-1242253MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825464603321The pleasures of reading in an age of distraction4001461UNINA